Hi Cecilia, I think your'e referring to Fn-F5 on my laptop keyboard which turns the wireless on and off?
This seems to have no effect when running OpenSolaris. When I booted my system, the "antenna" light on the laptop which indicates the radio is active was not lit up. The only way I could get it to light up was to either go into Administration -> Network and enable the wireless device in there, or to enable nwam. Once the light was lit up, commands like: wificonfig -i ipw0 scan and dladm scan-wifi would show my AP so I am pretty confident that it was operating in some sense. Andrew. 2008/6/24 Cecilia Hu <Cecilia.Hu at sun.com>: > Andrew, > > Is there any chance that WiFi switch/toggle is touched, as you mentioned > below that "RADIO is OFF"? If radio is off, all the description below > make sense. > > -Cecilia > > Andrew Myers Wrote: >> >> Unfortunately I've had exactly the same results with svn_91. >> >> To summarise: >> >> My network uses WEP encryption with a 128 bit Hex key. >> >> With nwam - see my network but does not connect when I enter my WEP key >> >> With wificonfig - refuses to connect with error: >> >> wificonfig: failed to connect to profile 'homenet' >> >> The closest I've gotten is using dladm - it connects (I think...at least >> it tells me it's connected, but I can't see it on my router's status page). >> DHCP does not appear to work. I have tried setting a static IP address, >> and taking the steps below (editing resolve.conf and nsswitch.conf and >> running the svcadm restart command as below) however I cannot connect to any >> internet sites. >> >> What's really frustrating is that this hardware has worked before with the >> same network settings on previous opensolaris builds (b57 and b78), but it >> seems something has happened that's caused it to no longer work. >> >> James C. McPherson wrote: >>> >>> Andrew Myers wrote: >>>> >>>> My AP is service DHCP. >>>> >>>> When I issued that command it timed out (I replaced iwk0 with ipw0 for >>>> my system). I then tried setting a static IP but couldn't connect to any >>>> internet sites (I expect I also need to set the DNS server somewhere?) >>> >>> Ah, yes - you'll need to make sure your /etc/resolv.conf has your >>> nameserver(s) listed, and that /etc/nsswitch.conf has >>> >>> hosts: files dns >>> >>> then run "svcadm restart dns/client name-service-cache" >>> >>>> I decided a reboot might be worth a try, but now it won't start up (I'm >>>> using the OpenSolaris 2008.05 live CD at the moment). >>>> >>>> It just keeps giving the message: >>>> >>>> WARNING: ipw0: ipw: RADIO is OFF >>> >>> In my experience that means I've generally managed to toggle the >>> wifi activation button. >>> >>>> I think I'll download and install the latest SXCE build and see how I >>>> get on with that. >>> >>> I hope it'll be better - the latest SXCE is build 90 iirc, but >>> osol2008.05 is based on build86 - there's been change :-) >>> >>>> Please take this is constructive criticism rather than me being a >>>> troll...but from my observations the wireless support in OpenSolaris has a >>>> fair way to go to catch up with some of the Linux distros. I'm happy to >>>> assist with its improvement if I can. >>> >>> nowurries at all (and you're a loooong way from trolling). >>> >>> >>> >>> James C. McPherson >>> -- >>> Solaris kernel software engineer, system admin and troubleshooter >>> http://www.jmcp.homeunix.com/blog >>> http://blogs.sun.com/jmcp >>> Find me on LinkedIn @ http://www.linkedin.com/in/jamescmcpherson >>> >>> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> laptop-discuss mailing list >> laptop-discuss at opensolaris.org > > > -- > > Cecilia.Hu at Sun.COM > +86-10-62673947 >
